Cut it out

“If your hand or your foot causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away. It is better for you to enter life maimed or crippled than to have two hands or two feet and be thrown into eternal fire. And if your eye causes you to sin, gouge it out and throw it away. It is better for you to enter life with one eye than to have two eyes and be thrown into the fire of hell.” Matthew 18:8-9
This is a hard teaching by Jesus, but once we understand that He is not advocating self-mutilation, it is a little easier to stomach.
How does our hand or foot or eye cause us to sin? Because of what we allow it to do in certain situations. Are you tempted to look at things that you shouldn’t? Then what Jesus says is, it is better to cut that thing (that you are tempted to look at) out of your life, than to indulge it and pay an eternal price.
As Christians we have liberties – things that are neither good nor bad, that the Bible is silent about. Things like going to parties, drinking alcohol, reading magazines, listening to secular music. Some of these things are not that edifying, but still the choice is yours whether to do them or not. However, for some people – particularly when they had an addiction to something before they were saved, the thought of indulging in that thing as a Christian liberty, leaves them feeling weak. It is better in that case, to forego the liberty so that you don’t stumble.
There may be a part of life that you don’t get to experience. But it is better to enter eternal life without experiencing it, than to indulge and end up in hell because of it.